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Well, for those of you following the trials and travails of the website overall, you will be relieved to know that it is finally back online. I don’t know quite what I did to it (well, actually, I know roughly what I did but no one seems to know why it broke) but I’ll tell you this: backup, backup, backup. I foolishly installed an admin patch (what was I thinking!?!)… Read More »Honey, I blew up the website.
Ah, this just made me laugh out loud… The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. Kathy said, ‘My father’s a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs… Read More »Some jokes just make me laugh…
I attended the Web 2.0 conference last week. Well, I only went to one day’s worth. I found a few interesting things on Thursday, which were oriented at Ontologies and metadata and the like. I wish I had been there for his keynote (Note: this takes you to a TED talk; the Keynote isn’t available anymore) on Wednesday by Clay Shirky about “Cognitive Surplus”; I suspect that he’s right.
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Well, not Simon and Garfunkle, that’s for sure. Today the site was down. I use Joomla to manage the content and somewhere along the line the whole thing just hiccuped. Fortunately the Joomla crowd had the answer on the forum. One of the top dogs answered my post for help, suggested that the site problem only looked like a) but was really b) and lead me to the answer. Sweet.… Read More »bridge over troubled water
Well, in the continuing search for an ever cooler desktop, I thought I would try to add Cruise Ships to the list of things that are now available for tracking. Well, there are a lot of cruise ships. Unless you zoom in, you really can’t make them out; the names all pile up. I might try later without the names, but it’s a lot more fun with the names. I… Read More »Cruising my desktop
I found this item on Woot today – I thought it was amusing news of the weird… “Put on your bib and get ready to chow down on my world-famous hot ‘n’ spicy honey-roasted hickory-smoked beer-infused St. Louis-style links: Even though I can’t name a single hair-metal band from Minneapolis, I was fascinated by Sex, Drugs, and Awesome Hair, a great retrospective article on that town’s early-80s metal scene. Whatever… Read More »Wired? No, Weird.